In collaboration with the League of Filipino Students at San Francisco State University, Resiliencies: Poetics of Filipino Diaspora, celebrates the vigor and resistance of the Filipino people on the 30th Anniversary month of the People Power Revolution on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in the Philippines. February 26, 1986 marked the end of President Ferdinand Marcos’s tyranny and dictatorship; succeeded by demonstrating without any bloodshed or violence.

Resiliencies is a diasporic narration of varied experiences aiming to make interpersonal connections with artists and their culture’s history. Collectively, ideas reflecting the lasting effects of colonization, oppression, and social justice movements are evident.